Farm-gate



-(No Model.)

0. HART.

FARM GATE.

Patented Apr.24, 1883.

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NITED STATES PATEN FARM-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,176, dated April 24, 1883.

Application filed July 31, 1882. (No model l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Farmington, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in FarmGates; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in farm-gates; and it consists in constructions and combinations ofpartshereinafterdescribed,

and set forth in the claims hereto annexed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure l is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation in the line at w in Fig. 3. Fig.3 is aside elevation, showing the bars E D connected by boards, which hoards, together with bar E, are partly broken away to show parts in rear thereof.

Referring to the drawings by letters, the same letter indicating the same part in the different figures, letter A represents a gate formed of bars a a a and side rails, a, arranged as shown in the drawings. There may be any desired number of bars a. Braces b are secured to the lower bars, a, which braces extend upward to stay or brace the bar a, to which said braces are also secured; and braces b are secured to the upper bar or bars, a, and to the bar a for staying the bar a, for purposes hereinafter described.

O is the latch-post.

D D are a pair of posts, between which the gate may be slid lengthwise back and forth.

E E are a pair of posts, similar to D D, and

for a similar purpose, and are located a short distance from the posts D. A top board, D, secures the posts D and E to each other and braces and holds them in place.

F F are grooved pulleys, as shown at Fig. 2, with extended journals f. The posts D have each a series of holes, 61, and the posts E have a similar series of holes, 0. A pulley, F, is located between each pair of posts D D and a pulley,-F', between the posts E E, with their journals in the bearing-holes d and e, respectively. The bar a rests in the groove in the upper sides of each pulley F F, and the bar a rests in the groove in the lower side of each pulley, as shown in the drawings. For convenience in putting the pulleys in place between the rails a a, said rails have semicircular-notches a" 66" in their adjacent faces,

l which permit placing the pulleys in the evident manner.

At Figs. 2 and 3 the posts D and E, on each side of the gate, are shown as connected by boards G, which are further shown as partly broken away at Fig. 3 to show one pulley, F, in full lines.

The gate is shown in a closed position at Figs. 1 and 3. It is opened by sliding it lengthwise and toward the left-hand side of said figures in the evident manner. When half-way open, or thereabout, the bar a, resting in the pulleys, F F, supports the gate. When fully closed the latch end of the gate will gravitate downward with considerable force, and the bar a will thereby be forced against the upper side of the pulley F, and the bar a be forced against the'under side of the pulley F and hold the gate in a horizontal position. When the gate is fully opened it is supported in a similar manner. I The braces 12 b will hold the bars a a securely against the strain to which they are subjected, and thus prevent them soon becoming useless by springing out of place.

The shaftsf may be withdrawn readily from the pulleys F F and inserted in higher holes in .the posts D and E when it is desired to hang the gate with its bottom at such distance from the ground as to permit hogs and other smaller animals to pass beneath it, while it stops the passage of larger animals; or the pulley-shafts may be inserted in lower holes in said posts when it is desired to stop the passage of both larger and smaller animals.

When the boards Gr are used an inclined series of holes, g, may be used for the pulleys, and thus afford means of raising the gate by -smaller gradations than by a vertically-arranged series of holes.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the posts D, having series of holes at, and posts E, having series of holes e, in which pulleys F F are respectively journaled, the gate A, formed of bars a a, a. and braces b b, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CALVIN HART.

Witnesses:

J As. MASON, A. R. SAUNDERS. 

